The Water Store - Hemet, CA

01/28/2025

Mike and I are reaching out to our generous community for help. Some of you may know Chris and His beautiful wife Hassy. Chris, who is a hard working manager at our local Valle Vista Home Center, kindly offered our daughter a position several months ago after he found out that she had moved back home. Our family would like to acknowledge his kindness and generosity towards this community as well as our own family by lifting Chris and Hassy up in prayer for a full and speedy recovery, along with providing a donation, and meals as needed. Please join us in supporting this family as they work to recover their health and mobility.

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01/03/2025

Looking for something to fill the void after the holiday decor has been put away? We have a beautiful selection of tropical houseplants to fill any vacant space in your home or office.

01/02/2025

🎉Happy New year to our Water Store friends and families! We have an incredible special going on in the store right now that will help make it so much easier to stock up on the best purified water in town…Just ask Mike and he’ll set you up! Oh! And we just brought in a new selection of our best selling tropical plants too!🪴

12/20/2024

The Water Store family wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy & blessed New Year!

👀 Look for special deals coming soon....just in time for the New Year!

06/06/2024

Who needs new plants in their life right now?
We’ve been blessed to be able to work with local growers to provide a delightful selection of tropical plants. Since Mike travels to bring these beauties into the store they are both vibrant and affordable!
Stop in and check out what Mike has brought in this week. We look forward to seeing you! 🌞

10/10/2023

Monstera deliciosa and Monstera adansonii are now available at The Water Store. These beautiful varieties are two of the most common types of Monsteras kept as houseplants. They are often confused with each other, but they are both two distinct species within the Monstera genus.

The Monstera Deliciosa, also known as the Swiss cheese "Plant," can be recognized by its large leaves with distinct fenestrations. Deliciosa leaves grow upright and can get quite large in the wild, often as big as a car tire, making it a very popular choice among houseplant lovers.

On the other hand, Monstera adansonii, commonly known as the Swiss Cheese "Vine," features smaller, more delicate leaves, as well as smaller fenestrations. The leaves of the adansonii are usually heart shaped, and have a vining, trailing growth habit.

By far, the most recognizable and interesting feature of both the deliciosa and the adansonii, are the holes in their leaves. Known as fenestrations, these natural perforations serve a purpose in their natural habitat.

The Monstera grows in rainforests from Southern Mexico, down to Panama and have naturalized in many tropical areas in Central America where heavy rainfall and, at times, high winds are normal. The naturally occurring holes in the leaves allow the plant to bend and move with the tropical winds as well as provide a means for rainwater to pass through that would otherwise collect and damage the stem.

How to care for your new Monstera:

Both Monstera deliciosa and adansonii thrive when provided with bright, indirect light. Water moderately when the top inch or two of soil dries out. It is beneficial to maintain higher humidity levels around the plant to mimic its rainforest habitat. Either place your plant in a wide saucer with pebbles and water, or use a humidifier. Both will work nicely. Use a balanced fertilizer during the Spring and Summer months to encourage new growth. Pruning helps manage its size and shape, and it is helpful to provide support to encourage your Monstera to grow upright.

10/05/2023

Mike and I made an impromptu video this morning on how to use the vending machine outside of the Water Store for those in our community who may have been a little uncertain or intimidated by the process.

The water serving the vending is the same purified water dispensed inside at the fill tables. Quality is assured throughout the system; from the RO to the fill tables, and out to the vending. A maintenance schedule is meticulously maintained and recorded daily.

10/02/2023

🍂 Apple Cider, colorful pumpkins, and the occasional friendly ghost help usher in Autumn at the store this year.🍂

09/29/2023

Our biggest plant order yet!

It’s the beginning of Fall and the cargo van is loaded with all your tropical favorites, even occupying the front seat!

Which means the store is bursting with holiday decor and lush green foliage.🎃🪴
I am loving the transformation!🥰

09/27/2023

Fall is here! Fall is here!

There is just a few short weeks until Halloween, and then the busy holiday procession begins!

For many years I had a difficult time with Halloween. I was never one for the spook, blood, and gore that is inherently part of the season. Instead I have learned to focus on what is good about the holiday. Like the joy I feel when little costumed people, with families trailing behind them, run up the driveway with big smiles and the echo of "Trick-or-Treat!" in the air, or the excitement of Mike filling the yard with cute holiday lights and blow-ups that I know will delight young and old alike.

But most of all, it's about community. It's about neighbors getting reacquainted, it's about reminding ourselves that we live our lives alongside diverse families, and taking the opportunity the holiday brings to make meaningful connections, even if only for a brief moment.

Fall is here...
And I can't wait to share it with you!

09/22/2023

It's Gathering time for the Water Store Family.

Summer has been bustling with planning and preparation to welcome a new member of the Gonzales family. It has been a busy time of gathering all the essentials to celebrate the new addition. Baby clothes, baking supplies, decorations, food, and flowers from the garden were on the top of the list. All my time and effort was met with blessing as we shared the joy of one of life's best kinds of gatherings, the coming together of two families to shower my son and daughter-in-law with love and gifts as we excitedly count down the last days until the arrival of our 6th grandchild.

Cooler weather is whispering that it is time to gather seeds and seedlings, and fill our empty garden beds with veggies and flowers for Fall interest and Winter harvest. I am not always successful with my Fall planting, but if anything, the Good Lord has made me a perennial optimist.

Our excited anticipation of costumed children and their families has Mike and I busy gathering all of our Halloween decorations, as well as the addition of a few new ones, to prepare our home with lots of fun and whimsical holiday blow-ups and bright lights to delight our neighborhood trick-or-treaters both young and old.

Last but not least...
It is time to gather the Fall arrangements and Holiday decor for the store. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to create such a beautiful space in our humble little water store. I get such a kick out of the look on people's surprised faces as they unexpectedly find themselves passing through our festive and lush indoor garden space on their way to the water fill tables!😄

I love this time of year! Can you tell?

It fills me with such optimism, excitement, and anticipation for the best gathering of all...

Thanksgiving!

08/29/2023

I'm so excited to share that Mike let me add some of my favorite plants to the order last week!

Did we go a little over his budget? Why yes...yes we did.😁
But it was so worth it!

The store is filled with so many gorgeous ferns, creeping charlies, rubber trees, nerve plants,and well...you'll just have to come in to find out all the beautiful varieties I talked him in to!